Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:02:24
Amid tight security, polling began this morning for the first of the seven phases of the high-stake Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections with voters queueing up to cast their ballots in 73 constituencies spread over 15 districts of western UP.
A total of 2.60 crore voters, including over 1.17 crore women and 1,508 belonging to third gender category are eligible to cast their ballots in 26,823 polli
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Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:56:27
J Prakash's unbeaten 115 in 52balls and his unbroken opening partnership of 175 runs with Ajay Kumar Reddy (51 not out) helped defending champions India thrash Sri Lanka by 10 wickets and enter the final of T20 World Cup for the Blind at Lal Bahadur Stadium here on Friday.
Put into bat, Sri Lanka were all out for 174 in 19.2 overs in the semifinal match with the Indian bowlers and fielders comi
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Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:54:18
Terming as "breach of privilege" Karnataka high courts circular barring elected representatives from sharing dais with judges during events like inauguration of court buildings, several MLAs in state Assembly today demanded that the Court registrar be summoned.
They also urged that the Law Minister who is the creation of the House (Assembly) should not attend such events as it would be disrespe
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Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:51:34
Indian Space Research Organisation's workhorse PSLV will carry a record 104 satellites in a single mission on February 15 from the space centre at Sriharikota Andhra Pradesh.
"PSLV-C37/Cartosat-2 Series Satellite Mission is scheduled to be launched on February 15, 2017 at 9.28 hours IST from SDSC SHAR Sriharikota," ISRO said.
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Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:40:27
Director general Rajendra Singh, director general, Indian Coast Guard along with additional DG K Natarajan, Coast Guard Commander Western Seaboard and other senior officers of Indian Coast Guard visited Karwar on Thursday for reviewing overall infrastructure development and coastal security mechanism of Uttar Kannada district. Rajendra Singh interacted with S S Nakul, DC, Uttara Kannada, and Vinay
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Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:04:23
Dissident AIADMK leader E Madusudanan has written to the Election Commission urging it not to recognise V K Sasikala as the party General Secretary saying she was not elected to the post as per party by-laws.
Madusudanan, who joined the rival camp led by Chief Minister O Pannerselvam, disclosed this to reporters here today shortly before he was sacked from AIADMK by Sasikala for "acting against
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Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:02:32
Sending a strong message to her detractors, AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala today sacked party Presidium Chairman E Madusudanan from the primary membership, a day after he switched over to the rebel camp led by Chief Minister O Panneerselvam.
Madusudanan had been removed from all posts besides the primary membership for going against the party principles and bringing disrepute to it, she
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Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:42:47
A passenger on board an IndiGo plane from Mumbai to Chandigarh opened the emergency chute of the aircraft "accidentally", resulting in injury to a co-passenger, following which the airline lodged an FIR against the accused.
The incident occurred this morning when the flight was getting ready to depart for Chandigarh, IndiGo said in a
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Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:39:31
The Central government is planning to make all ration shops under the public distribution system in the country Aadhaar-enabled by June 30 this year, IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said.
"We will make all 5.58 lakh ration shops Aadhar-enabled by June 30. We are in discussion with Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry for this," Prasad told reporters here. He said that already all ration sho
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